Contact

Mendeleev

00:00

event in 6mins?

Deusovi

If enough people are on.

ffao

this notification timing is very curious, why 6 mins and not 5?

n_palum

Because it likes the number 6 better

Rubio

Because like 11 is one louder, 6 is one better.

n_palum

Rubio gets it

Deusovi

00:06

Makes sense to me

Rubio

who's here?

n_palum

Upwards of 7 people it seems

Rubio

anyone wanna go?

well don't all jump in at once. ;)

Rubio defending: U

let's get this party started

n_palum

Go for it haha

Deusovi

1: U_U__U

Rubio

00:09

huh.

ffao

contact 1

Sp3000

Contact Deus

Rubio

1: It's not UBUNTU

Deusovi

gah

yeah, that's it

Sp3000

I can think of some mean ones but it'd be unfair to Rubio :P (also in/out cos work)

n_palum

00:11

2: Loud window cover whispers (5)

Not sure if that's fair/legitimate

But I'm curious

Sp3000

5 letter word containing 4 pronouns

n_palum

3: Absolute sounds like milk maker (5)

Rubio

3: just going to assume this is UDDER

Alconja

8: ^Z

Deusovi

Contact Sp

And 8

Rubio

00:14

8: It's not UNDO

n_palum

Correcto

Sp3000

Contact 8

nvm

n_palum

4: Hoity toity

Rubio

sp3000/ It's not USHER

ffao

5: Layton's future

Deusovi

00:15

Contact 5

Rubio

and that's awesome btw

Sp3000

USHER is correct

n_palum

^

Rubio

4: It's not UPPER-CLASS nor UPPITY

nor UPPER CRUST

Deusovi

9: "I can't take it anymore!"

Rubio

00:16

5: guessing; It's not UTOPIA ?

n_palum

Was looking for UPPITY nice

ffao

no

Deusovi

not sure if it's fair, ffao

Rubio

then passing on 5

Deusovi

UNWOUND

ffao

00:16

well, Gareth surely uses a lot of obscure references

Deusovi

"Professor Layton and the Unwound Future", third game in a series about puzzles

ffao

I will stop using games now

Rubio

Not a clue what that means. :)

Rubio defending: U R

n_palum

I mean are games that much different than Gareth using poets, writers etc

Deusovi

10: It has an annoyed face in it with two mouths, after four letters

n_palum

00:17

If people can guess it they're not terribly unfair

Deusovi

also, 9 is dead - it was UNCLE

n_palum

2 Dies

@Deusovi Is it invalid to use Loud to clue taking off an SH?

Deusovi

yeah, probably

n_palum

pretty sure it is

Rubio

wow. yeah, i'd say yes

what was the word then?

n_palum

00:18

Haha I was experimenting... (SH)UTTER

Deusovi

that's definitely unfair

Alconja

surely no clue in contact is "invalid"

Deusovi

"without silence" maybe

we're talking about cryptic rules, not Contact rules

n_palum

Yeah I guess that'd be more fair

Alconja

oh, duh

1: dense core

Rubio

00:20

1: It's not Uranium

Alconja

-1

n_palum

4: Peeing prevents this

Rubio

4: It's not UREMIA

n_palum

No

Rubio

... no??

Alconja

00:21

contact 4 (maybe)

Deusovi

Contact 4, I think

n_palum

I stand by that no

Rubio

4: it's not a URINARY TRACT INFECTION, perhaps.

n_palum

Yepp

Rubio

(also, no hehe)

Deusovi

00:23

Updated 10

n_palum

2: Sea __

Alconja

contact 2

Deusovi

Contact 2

Rubio

2: It's not URCHIN

n_palum

Yes

Rubio

00:25

1: maybe; It's not URBAN ?

Alconja

+1

n_palum

3: - the TI

Rubio

3: It's not URINARY

n_palum

4: Studies ^^ that

Yes

Rubio

(4) nor UROLOGIST

Alconja

00:27

contact 4

n_palum

Yup

Silenus

5: Language of Pakistan

Deusovi

Contact 5

Rubio

I'm assuming URDU - not that

Silenus

Yes

n_palum

00:29

I'm running out of UR words ;_;

Deusovi

My 10 still hasn't been contacted

Rubio

I have no idea what that is :)

Silenus

@n_palum Well, UR- is a prefix, so just start adding it to stuff.

n_palum

I think I know 10 but don't wanna contact until I am sure

Gareth McCaughan

1. Neoreactionary's computer software system

Alconja

00:30

2: grave

Gareth McCaughan

contact 2 @Alconja

Rubio

2: It's not URGENT

Alconja

+1

Gareth McCaughan

3. Nettle

4. Pope

n_palum

Hi Gareth

Deusovi

00:31

Contact 4

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum hi!

Rubio

hey gareth :)

4: It's (still) not URBAN

Gareth McCaughan

correct, 4 was URBAN

n_palum

6: LoL Game Mode

Rubio

why. why is there always a LoL question. hehe

n_palum

00:32

I had to xD

ffao

if you're going to use games, at least use ones I know xD

Rubio

^^ same

Gareth McCaughan

5. One of William Blake's mythical figures

n_palum

7: Sumerian City-State

Deusovi

Contact 7

Gareth McCaughan

00:33

contact 7 @n_palum

Rubio

7: It's not UR

n_palum

Yessir

Gareth McCaughan

8. Thine

Deusovi

updated 10

Contact 8

Rubio

meh. it's off my screen now

gonna kill the pin on the event

Gareth McCaughan

00:35

8 hasn't been starred

n_palum

hehe murder

Rubio

8: it's not URS i guess?

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio not URS but could you explain why you thought it was?

Rubio

textspeak

Silenus

3: sounds like deserve

Deusovi

00:36

...uncontact 8

Gareth McCaughan

yeah, I was actually thinking UR, so I'll accept that

Deusovi

Contact 3

n_palum

OH contact 5!

Gareth McCaughan

("thine" rather than "thy" before a vowel)

Rubio

3: It's not URN

n_palum

00:36

Granted it's the person I am thinking of

Silenus

Yes

Gareth McCaughan

wait, are we talking about my 3? That definitely isn't URN and I'm not sure why it would have been

ah, no, Silenus's, I see

Rubio

Silenus clashed

n_palum

No Sil doubled up

Silenus

Sorry

Rubio

00:37

PASSING on 5, go for it @n_palum

n_palum

It's like Uriza or something very close to that right?

Reason etc

Gareth McCaughan

It's something close, but it isn't Uriza. It was URIZEN. I don't think we can claim that.

n_palum

Ahh come on that's close

I knew what it was

Rubio

close doesn't count in Contact

Alconja

2: escape route

Deusovi

00:38

except when it does

this probably isn't one of those times though

Rubio

^

hehe

Gareth McCaughan

I tend to think we should be generous to the defender and picky with the attackers

n_palum

It's like the zoa thing :(

Gareth McCaughan

4. Homosexual

n_palum

stands for reason

gahhhh

Gareth McCaughan

00:39

5. Bender

Deusovi

11: Minor

Gareth McCaughan

contact 11 @Deusovi

Rubio

spoon bender? It's not URI

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio right, though I was thinking URI GELLER more completely

Rubio

well yeah

Gareth McCaughan

00:40

(and really I posted that mostly because it amused me to put it immediately after #4; sorry)

n_palum

12: Major

;)

Gareth McCaughan

contact 12 @n_palum

Deusovi

Contact 12

Rubio

11:/12: it's not the big or little dippers. :)

n_palum

contact 11

Rubio

00:41

URSA

Deusovi

n_p, you COULD have just contacted

and not given a hint with a nearly identical clue

n_palum

Could have

Deusovi

(also, yes, that's what 11 was)

Rubio

I already had it, by the way

n_palum

He would've been fiiine

15: Planet

Gareth McCaughan

00:43

so what's been contacted? I know 3 has; anything else?

Alconja

contact 15

Gareth McCaughan

contact 15 @n_palum

Rubio

15: It's not URANUS

Deusovi

14: Disney villain

Rubio

3 is contacted?

Deusovi

00:43

It is?

Gareth McCaughan

I thought it was

n_palum

Yes - to 15

awesomepi

contact 14

Gareth McCaughan

but I thought it was contacted by Deusovi so now I'm confused

n_palum

contact 14

Rubio

00:44

oh. that was on the dup

Gareth McCaughan

oh, it was Silenus's other 3 he contacted

Deusovi

ah, yeah

n_palum

Hesitant contact on 4

Rubio

15: it's not URSULA

passing on 4, no idea

Deusovi

there is no clue 15 :P

n_palum

00:44

You mean 14

Gareth McCaughan

go on then @n_palum

Deusovi

(yeah, that's it)

n_palum

URANIAN

Rubio

er sorry. i swore i typed 14 :)

Deusovi

ooh, yeah

Gareth McCaughan

00:45

ah, good idea but no, I was thinking of URNING, a long-obsolete term

n_palum

I'm pretty sure

Deusovi

D:

n_palum

WHAT

Deusovi

URANIAN does mean homosexual though

n_palum

You are killing me Gareth

Deusovi

00:45

:c

Rubio

hah. I just dodged a bullet

n_palum

2 now

Rubio

2?

oh right

Gareth McCaughan

yes, indeed uranian does mean that (and urning is closely related)

ffao

also contacting 2 for stabs in the dark

Rubio

00:46

the first one was strategic actually ;)

ok if you're going to force me to guess

2: it's not URETHRA nor URETER. heh

n_palum

I'm trying

Deusovi

pff

Alconja

+1

Gareth McCaughan

ewwww

Rubio

that's awful, btw

n_palum

00:47

0: Location Location Location

Alconja

:) it's hard coming up with non-awful clues for things like that...

Rubio

0: U R HERE?

Deusovi

I think that was a good clue

Gareth McCaughan

contact 0 @n_palum though I'm not certain I've divined your meaning

n_palum

^ UR does have a lot urinary words xD

and no Rubio

Deusovi

00:48

I'd've thought one of you would get 10 by now

Rubio

bah.

PASS 0

Gareth McCaughan

I conjecture that 0 is URL

n_palum

Indeed it is

Rubio

oh. bah

Alconja

nice

Rubio

00:48

nice one

Gareth McCaughan

I think that's the second time Rubio has been got with a URL-related clue

Rubio

I'm ashamed.

Alconja

we've found his weak point

Gareth McCaughan

which is amusing since IIRC he's a computer guy

Deusovi

next letter, Rubio?

Rubio

00:49

I'm deeply ashamed.

Rubio defending: U R B

n_palum

You should be :P

Payback ;)

Deusovi

Speaking of URL-related clues...

10 is dead.

Gareth McCaughan

my nettle was URTICARIA (latin name for the nettle plant)

Rubio

it occurs to me that so far, this is an anagram of my username

Gareth McCaughan

oh ugh

my clue 1 is still valid

awesomepi

00:49

urboi

let's go

ffao

urticaria actually means rash

n_palum

6 Dies - URF (Ultra Rapid Firemode)

Gareth McCaughan

oops yes nettle is urtiga

i mean urtica

just as well no one contacted

Deusovi

10 was URL. http ://

ffao

as it happens, we actually call it urticaria normally in my native language

Rubio

00:50

burninate all LoL clues.

Gareth McCaughan

(my oh ugh was because I'd just figured out Deusovi's)

2. sophisticated

n_palum

@Deusovi Ohhhh I was not on the right track at all

Silenus

@GarethMcCaughan contact

Alconja

contact 2

Rubio

and hah. that's clever but "lucky guess it or you'll never get it" indirect

n_palum

00:51

7: Tall tale

Rubio

PASS on 2.

Silenus

@n_palum contact

Gareth McCaughan

oh did we get it?

Silenus

URBANE

Rubio

indeed.

Gareth McCaughan

00:51

yup, urbane

Alconja

^

n_palum

Oh drat

Gareth McCaughan

woohoo we won

ffao

I was looking for a word with double letters for 10, but not double slashes

n_palum

All this hard work

Gareth McCaughan

00:51

like, that never happens

ffao

good work, guys

Deusovi

...it happens literally every game

Gareth McCaughan

that was the joke

Rubio

Actually, not ;)

Gareth McCaughan

though there was one time when it looked like the defender was going to win because no one knew their word. I think it got figured out in the end

n_palum

00:52

We did actually fail to win a couple days ago... Game got busted up

Gareth McCaughan

but maybe not given Rubio's last remark

Rubio

It's happened a couple of times, yeah

Deusovi

@GarethMcCaughan That was also Rubio's

Gareth McCaughan

I tend to think that it's unfair for the defender to choose a word likely not to be known by any of the attackers.

I mean, there are a lot of very obscure words and it seems like too easy a way to win.

Deusovi

I remember it was something with the pattern ?????-?????ED, and no dictionaries had it that I could find

Alconja

00:53

agreed... also saps the fun if the game stagnates

Gareth McCaughan

@Rubio do you happen to remember what you won with?

Rubio

every word I've defended, in order.
albumin
bitterhearted
contraceptive
denuded
earthmover
folderol
genuflect
homogenized
iridium
jackanapes
kinescope
laminar
mandibular
needlepoint
ordination
preternatural
quadrupole
rapturous
superstructure
tintinnabulum
urbane

Deusovi

ha!

Gareth McCaughan

none of those seems to match Deusovi's description

awesomepi

i wonder what the next word'll start with

Deusovi

00:54

and it was B - I was wrong about the pattern by one letter

Rubio

yes. I'm working through the alphabet. ;)

Gareth McCaughan

I too am amused by the alphabetization

ah yes, bitterhearted.

Doesn't look like a word to me.

n_palum

That's awesome!

Gareth McCaughan

OED has it but only with a hyphen

Rubio

ah yes. actually we'd just heard that word that very day, or maybe the day before, in service

so it was on my mind

Gareth McCaughan

00:55

I mean, obviously if you saw it in a book or poem or something it would be perfectly clear

Deusovi

Google only had 4k results for it

Gareth McCaughan

but by that criterion practically anything is a word

Deusovi

and yes, the game stagnated. a lot.

n_palum

@Rubio In Service? You serve/d?

Gareth McCaughan

Qat knows it, but probably in its hyphenated form

@n_palum pretty sure he means a religious service

n_palum

00:56

Ohhh wasn't sure.. just because I know OED as a military thing

Deusovi

not in the UKACD - in one of the other dictionaries

@n_palum Oxford English Dictionary

Rubio

litscape.com/word_analysis/bitterhearted

for whatever that's worth

n_palum

Ohh that's right :/ got confused because I was focusing on service

Anyway who got it/can defend?

Rubio

Gareth's turn

Gareth McCaughan

I got it but really need to go to bed very soon so would rather not defend

(sorry, I know I keep saying that -- games tend to happen in the middle of the night my time)

n_palum

00:57

I can if no one wants to

@GarethMcCaughan We do play in your afternoon timeish

But I assume you are at work

Gareth McCaughan

@n_palum occasionally. Of course then I'm generally at work, so also not supposed to be frittering away too much time on such things.

and in between I'm at home and meant to be spending time with my family, so meh :-)

n_palum

I've only been able to at work because it's been slow..

Family Shmamily

I haven't seen my family in 5 months.. :/

awesomepi

...

Rubio

Me too. I should probably open the basement door and see if they're ok.

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